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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 1983
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mary Steenburgen | |
Performer: | Rip Torn, Dana Hill & Peter Coyote | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Story by | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Somehow, Mr. Ritt manages to use this very artificiality in the service of an optimism that is very much his own.
New York Times
Rating: C+ --
Martin Ritt's chronicle of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is not particularly illuminating of the writer's life, but it's well acted by Mary Steenburgen and especially Alfre Woodard.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
It's an uncompelling, yet warm, tale which lightly skips over the woman's travails by illustrating a series of vignettes of rural humanity.
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Variety
The script may take some liberties with the facts, but when the resulting movie is this likeable you soon cease to care.
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Film4
...Very pleasant fare told with warmth and humor....Torn once again provides a thoroughly watchable and entertaining performance...
Variety
Rating: 2/4 --
Alas, this uninspired, perfunctory literary bio isn't saved by its handsome visuals.
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TV Guide
...[Steenburgen] radiates....[The film has] farfetched but unmistakable charm.
New York Times
Product Description:
Mary Steenburgen (MELVIN AND HOWARD) stars in this adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's classic novel about her experiences living in rural Florida during the 1920s and 1930s. Mixing together elements of both CROSS CREEK and THE YEARLING, director Martin Ritt creates a glowing period piece that finds the essence of both books. In the film, Mrs. Rawlings (Steenburgen), a New Yorker, buys an orange grove in the Florida swamps for the purpose of going there to write the gothic romance she can't seem to finish in the city. As soon as she arrives, Mrs. Rawlings becomes immersed in the colorful backwoods community that surrounds her grove, and acquires a young cook named Geechee (Woodard) as well as farm hands to work the groves. Enchanted by life in Cross Creek, Mrs. Rawlings finds herself writing not gothic romances, but tales of small town life in rural Florida. Next thing she knows, her stories catch the attention of a major publisher. A lyrical meditation on both rural life and the nature of creativity, Martin Ritt's film is filled with lush imagery and standout performances. In particular, Rip Torn's performance as Marsh Turner, a drunken but loving father, is outstanding, and it rightfully won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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- UPC: 012236101833
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